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Author: Chrissa Hardy / Source: Wise Bread Entering the working world is particularly harsh nowadays, and twenty-somethings trying to juggle their student loan debt, possible credit card debt, and low wages understandably feel discouraged and exhausted. While debt can become isolating, it’s

Author: J.D. Roth / Source: Get Rich Slowly “Oh good,” Kim said when I rolled out of bed yesterday morning. “I’m glad you’re up.” She gets up at 5:30 for work most days, but I tend to sleep in. Especially during allergy season. “Huh?” I grunted. It was 6:10 and I was very groggy. My evening

Author: J.D. Roth / Source: Get Rich Slowly Happy birthday to me! Today, I turn fifty. Holy cats, that’s old! To celebrate, over the weekend I replaced the tape deck in my 1993 Toyota pickup so that I can listen to my Taylor Swift cassette. (You think I’m joking but I’m not.) The funny thing is,

Author: Peter Rubin / Source: WIRED When I was 17 years old, two things held particular sway over my imagination. One of them was virtual reality. Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and the movie Lawnmower Man both came out that year, and while I had never heard of the technology that was bubbling

Source: Big Think The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read “Ask a Philosopher” – at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th – were perhaps random but inevitable. I’d been a “public philosopher” for 15 years, so I readily agreed to